The Farr Side: Take the lyrics quiz

Thursday

Here we are, another week into shelter-in-place, self-quarantining, isolation, solitary confinement or boredom fog, as some have put it.

Of course, I’m referring to our current state-of-mind for helping curb the coronavirus pandemic.

I’ve turned to my music, as usual. Music has and will always be my go-to for when I need to take my mind off things. It’s an enjoyable escape. I don’t really need a pandemic to make me jam to some tunes. But it has helped me to cope with being alone.

So I thought, why not a song lyric quiz to keep your minds engaged? This one is going to be challenging, I’ll admit. I tossed in a few you should be able to get right away. But put on your thinking caps and see how many you know.

Here are snippets of lyrics from popular songs from throughout the rock ‘n’ roll era. Check your answers when you’re finished.

1. “Alright stop, collaborate and listen...”2. “I’ve done alright up ’til now. Its the light of day that shows me how. And, when the night falls, loneliness calls...”3. “Everything’s all right, I’ll just say goodnight, And, show myself to the door...”4. “I’m just another heart in need of rescue, waiting on love’s sweet charity...”5. “Where it began, I can’t begin to know. But then I know its growing strong...”6. “I get this feeling that time’s just holding me down. I’ll hit the ceiling, or else I’ll tear up this town...”7. “Now I’m floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee, I earned my stripes, I went from zero to my own hero...”8. “Hey pretty baby with the high heels on. You give me fever like I’ve never forever known...”9. “Don’t carry the world upon your shoulder, For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool by making this world a little colder...”10. “Spider Murphy played the saxophone, Little Joe was blowin’ on the slide trombone...”11. “We don’t need no education, We don’t need no thought control...”12. “Prayed through the nights felt so alone. Suffered from alienation, carried the weight of my own, I had to be strong...”13. “All the world’s a candy store, He’s be trick or treatin’...”14. “Once I had a love and it was divine. Soon found out I was losing my mind...”15. “We were young when I first saw you, I close my eyes and the flashbacks start...”16. “We belong together and yu know that I’m right. Why do you play with my heart?...”17. “Gina works the diner all day, working for her man. She brings home her pay for love...”18. “I’ve got this burning, burning, yearning feelin’ inside me. And, it hurts so bad...”19. “I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. Don’t know where it goes but its home to me, and I walk alone...”20. “Smoking guns, hot to the touch. Would cool down if we didn’t use them so much...”21. “I got chills, they’re multiplying and I’m losing control. ’Cause the power you’re supplying, it’s electrifying...”22. “Well, you can rock it you can roll it, You can stomp it and even stroll it...”23. “I wanna hold ’em like they do in Texas, please...”24. “Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me. I think they’re okay. If they don’t give me proper credit, I just walk away...”25. “I was dreaming when I wrote this, sue me if I go too fast. But, life is just a party, and parties weren’t meant to last...”